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Posted By: GUEST,Phil d'Conch
24-Jul-23 - 09:33 PM
Thread Name: Origins: 'Haul on the Bowline' melody
Subject: RE: Origins: 'Haul on the Bowline' melody
"Up bound the sails amidst the dangers of a storm, in the bitterest cold, in midnight gales––up they cheerily fly, to the tune of
“Hang boys, hang!” or,
“Haul the bowling, the bowling haul;”
the pull and the tug being unanimously given with the utterance of the last word."
[At Sea in a Clipper*, The Leisure Hour, vol.IV, 1855]
* James Baines (clipper)(1854)
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